MAGA really has a "you can't let people who arrange illegal plans to face consequences today or the people who implement the illegal actions will have to pay tomorrow!" And... Yes. YES! This is a GOOD thing.

What infuriates me about "what if LLMs cure cancer" is the fact that's it's not what people use it for. If you build ONE data center dedicated for advancing cancer research, then the energy/water usage is MAYBE justifiable. But we're building 100 of these to generate memes and fake product images.

franz@franzanth.bsky.social · 23h ago

for the people who prefer video format/visual evidence, essentially the same things as the article above

You’re telling me that the British media is propped up by predatory men and their confidants who spend their days writing about how trans people are the real predators and their special boys are simply misunderstood silly lads? Wow. This is the first I’m hearing about it. Why didn’t anyone say?

james@james.claims · 20h ago

We haven’t even finished the current round of pretending a well known predator wasn’t well known to be a predator, now a second well known predator has hit the tower.

sometimes i delete a post because i've grown as a person in those 45 seconds

“Why are these systems even on a network? Just disconnect them!” I see this after every OT attack, usually from smart IT people. As someone who responds to these incidents, I wish it were that easy. I wrote up how we got here, and why devices keep getting hit. tisiphone.net/2026/11/08/l...

Let’s Talk About Why all This OT Stuff is Connected

It’s been a really bad month (and year) for OT cybersecurity. From a wave of new, high-impact vulnerabilities, to attacks on supermarket refrigerators, to attacks on blood banks, we’ve …

tisiphone.net

hegseth should be impeached for trying to resegregate the military's upper ranks, and i'm going to be extremely annoyed if people start arguing that's not a good reason

Are we going to give our water, electricity and planet for massive data centres that will be have the power to change people's conversation even as they are speaking? This is as dystopian as it gets. Shut this fucking tech down now. www.techspot.com/news/114477-...

Microsoft patent filing describes AI that rewrites what people say in livestreams in real time

AI-edited and AI-generated videos have been among the most popular generative AI applications since the technology's initial explosion in popularity. However, a Microsoft patent filing from late...

techspot.com

Really weird photo to go with. My first glance, I thought he was using a walker

Thor Benson@thorbenson.bsky.social · 4d ago

I guess Democrats will have to focus on investigations 🤷‍♂️

what a stark example of why many survivors do not turn to the law—or if they do, they regret it. rapists frequently use legal proceedings to further abuse their victims.

Mollie Gerver@mgerver.bsky.social · 4d ago

In 2014 a woman accused Brand of assault. He sued her for harassment. The judge - despite acknowledging that she might have told the truth - ordered her to never speak to anyone about this, including doctors, therapists and police. Judges should not have this power. taxpolicy.org.uk/2026/11/07/r...

This really is a generational shift IMO: Ossof is a year older than me, and people our age have spent our entire lives watching a murderous, incredibly evil GOP make everything in this country worse. We don't view them as misguided neighbors, we view them as they really are: the enemy of democracy.

Angus Johnston@angus.bsky.social · 5d ago

Lots of the most prominent members of the Dem class of 2026 are now just stating plainly, over and over, that they feel no obligation to perform rituals of civility for odious scumbags. It's a tectonic shift in political messaging, and one with—it seems to me—real policy implications.

I wish reporters would retire the "culture war" shorthand, which shaves the hard edges off reality. "Culture war" signals meaningless sideshow, obscuring the reality: This was a campaign to roll back the civil rights of LGBTQ students, whitewash history lessons, attack academic freedom, etc, etc

what could it mean

Wow. @perrybaconjr.bsky.social with a banger! Don't let the headline fool you, this is a critique of the limitations of the overwhelmingly white pundit class.

Trump’s Vaunted Multiracial Coalition Is Dead

The pundit class couldn’t get enough of the narrative that nonwhites were constructing a durable multiracial MAGA coalition. So much for all that.

newrepublic.com

I'm going to be horribly pessimistic and say "pardoned by Trump and Dems throw up their hands in defeat" for all of them.

Code Four Lyoko@lokrobster.bsky.social · 5d ago

Locking in predictions now

Expecting to see a lot more of this.

Dems really need to realize that the electorate already rebuked Trump once and then watched Dems be ineffective at preventing him coming back worse. Coming in with a "we're going to stick by our playbook because it just won us an election" is so fucking tone deaf. We need more this time.

This is not rising to the occasion. This is ensuring that you're just keeping the seat warm until the next fascist government takes over.

House Judiciary Dems@democrats-judiciary.house.gov · 6d ago

It’s time for ICE to take the masks off, turn the body cameras on, and start answering to the American people who pay for their bloated budget.

While I agree it’s outrageous that men - and if we’re being honest, people - cover up for sex abusers, I do have to point out again that the whole purpose of the terrifying Cancel Culture panic was to protect wealthy arse-grabbers who lost their minds over e.g. Harvey Weinstein going to jail.

mechanic: we found a rat in your engine chewing on hoses me: guess we’ll have to work with him mechanic: ? me: we need to focus on unity

nobody gives you a sweeping mandate like this because they want you to work with the people they just ran tf outta office

More than 125 civil rights organizations urged Congressional leaders last month to fix this abandonment of women. Now is the time for newly elected Dems to step up. Ignoring rape and promoting bigotry does not protect women.

Assigned Media@assignedmedia.org · 2w ago

The Trump administration has worked to portray itself as protecting women and girls through their anti-trans policies. Meanwhile, they've worked tirelessly to undermine protections against sexual assault. Wither Title IX, in this exceptional new reported story by @billiejsweeney.bsky.social.

"But the court might strike it down!" And I would truly love that. But our neighbors still voted to hurt our children, even as they also voted blue. That's fucked and nothing undoes that.

Billionaires feared Trump & did his bidding. As did some once revered law firms, Senators, Congress members & some Universities But ordinary citizens in the icy streets of Minneapolis risked all to stand by their neighbors & say NO! They showed us we CAN hold the line. Thank you Minneapolis

Watching the media choose who is “normal” and “extreme” from a political party that systematically culled its leaders for the last decade is rich. Everyone who stood up in 2016 is long gone, and everyone who stayed after January 6 knows exactly what their party stands for now. Nobody’s innocent

You can tell AI is a very real industry by the way it implodes unless a sympathetic political party has totally unchecked power

your response to “I was raped” should not be “I was right”

This is from @froomkin.bsky.social. "What’s missing from every story about Tuesday’s anti-Trump rout."

Salon.com's team had an amazing election night. It is truly so fun, such an honor, to work with such smart, passionate, deeply funny people. This morning, we were informed the publication was closed, effective immediately. Here's the official company message. www.salon.com/2026/11/05/g...

Goodbye from Salon - Salon.com

It has been an extraordinary privilege.

salon.com

A thought; can Democrats use Trump's Trumpiness to their advantage? Would he sign the "Rename the Reflecting Pool to The Trump Reflecting Pool (and also Medicare for all) Act"? Or at least not veto it?